Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 20/05/2005-07:22:15(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types
> On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:06:12 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net> wrote:
> | The phrase "when an option is specified" is a bit ambiguous,
> | especially since it is later referred by the explanation of
> | AC_ARG_WITH. I was not sure if "option" in this case means "option" as
> | in "--enable-foo=OPTION". I was confused, because one paragarph before
> | the example you talk about "--enable-foo and --disable-foo *switches*
> | to ./configure".
>
> .. Important:: The third argument is used when a ``--enable`` or
>   ``--disable`` switch to ``./configure`` is provided, and the fourth
>   is used when such a switch is *not* passed. A common misconception is
>   that the third is enable and the fourth is disable -- this is **not**
>   the case. You may encounter packages that get this wrong.
>
> Does that sound any better?

Yes, much better.

> | - coloring
> |
> | 	%.1 : %.in
> | 		@regex_cmd@ -e "s,\@VERSION\@,$(VERSION),g" $? > $@
> |
> | The first "@" is span.Special and the second one is span.Constant.
>
> Hrm, that's a vim thing (I'm using a vim script to do the highlighting
> at compile time, it's not manual). If someone enjoys pain they could
> have a go at making vim's automake highlighting smarter... Don't think
> I'm brave enough to touch that one myself.

The 2html.vim that comes with vim seems to work fine here. Tried both 7α
and 6.3. The HTML is ugly, but at least it's properly highlighted:

http://gg3.net/~chutz/gentoo/highlight/

Of course, you need to "set ft=automake", which is different than
ft=make. ;)

$ vim -c 'set ft=automake' Makefile.in -c TOhtml -c wq -c qa

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